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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1938
News Review of Current Events
EUROPEAN WAR AVERTED
Britain, France and Russia Would Not Stand for
German Aggression Against the Czechs
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Here is an armored ear detachment of Czechoslovakia’s up-to-date
army which was sent to the frontier to meet the threats of aggression by
Fuehrer Hitler’s troops that were massed on their side of the border.
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SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK
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On tho Verge of Hostilities
/"^ERMAN and Czech troops by
the thousands were massed on
the frontier between the two coun
tries. President Benes of Czechoslo
vakia and his cabi
net decided to call
70,000 reserves to
the colors. Poland
assembled armed
forces close to the
Slovakia border.
Hungary was re
ported to be taking
“certain military
measures.” France
was ready to defend
her ally, Czechoslo-
President vakia, against Nazi
Benes aggression, and
there was assurance that Great
Briiain and Russia would come to
the aid of France if she were at
tacked without provocation.
No wonder the governments of
Europe were desperately worried
by such a critical condition.
Hitler must have realized that the
time was not ripe for aggressive ac
tion against the Czechs, for German
authorities in Berlin solemnly as
sured Dr. Vojtech Mastny, Czech
minister to Berlin, and the Czech
military attache that Germany
planned no military expedition
against Czechoslovakia. This eased
the situation somewhat, but the
British cabinet continued to urge
Benes and his government to make
all possible concessions to Hitler
concerning the demands of the Su
deten German minority. It was be
lieved the Fuehrer would ultimate
ly get about everything he wants
from the Czechs without a fight.
Both France and Britain were
bringing strong pressure to bear on
Berlin, and the British especially
were determined to avert general
war if it could be done.
Prime Minister Chamberlain, it
was said, was working out a plan
under which his government would
play the part of mediator. The
scheme was based on autonomy for
the 3,250,000 Germans in Czecho
slovakia with freedom in municipal
and educational affairs.
Henlein’s German party in the
Sudeten districts of Czechoslovakia
was winning victories in municipal
elections, and this made the Nazis
quite cocky in their attitude. They
refused to negotiate with the gov
ernment until their safety had been
guaranteed.
*
Southerners Are Sore
IT NOWING they were fighting a
J " v losing battle. Southern repre
sentatives bitterly contested the
progress of the wage-hour bill
through the house. The test vote on
discharge of the rules committee
was 322 to 73.
In the debate that followed North
ern Democrats and most of the Re
publicans indicated their approval
of the measure. The South opposed
it mainly because it contains no dif
ferentials in favor of that section.
*
Martin Loses in Oregon
CIOV. CHARLES H. MARTIN of
Oregon, the veteran soldier
who has been fighting against the
C. I. O. and other radicals, was
beaten for renomination in the Dem
ocratic primary by Henry Hess who
had the backing of labor unions and
of Secretary of the Interior Ickes.
Charles A. Sprague was nominated
for governor by the Republicans and
they believe they have a good
chance to win in the fall elections,
for the Democrats, there as in Penn
sylvania, were badly split.
*
Two Taxation Decisions
IN TWO far-reaching decisions the
United States Supreme court fur
ther narrowed the field of recipro
cal intergovernmental tax immuni
ty. The rulings continued the trend
in the direction of President Roose
velt’s theory that the federal and
state governments can tax the sala
ries of each other’s employees and
die income of each other’s securi
ties without a constitutional amend-
ment.
In a decision delivered by Justice
Stone, the court upheld levying of
federal income taxes on employees
of the Port of New York authority.
In a decision delivered by Justice
Roberts, the court upheld federal
admission taxes on tickets to foot
ball games conducted by the uni
versity system of Georgia.
*
Italy Warns France
ITALY intimated it would keep out
of the Nazi-Czech quarrel, but
Mussolini broke off the friendship
talks with France and warned that
continued French acquiescence in
the shipment of arms to govern
ment Spain would not be tolerated.
He said the past conversations could
not be resumed until Franco and
his rebels had won a clear-cut vic
tory.
The Duce declared that unless
France ceases aiding transmission
of Soviet and Czech arms to Barce
lona, Italy and Germany may be
forced to increase their assistance
to the insurgents. This naturally
would endanger the new Anglo-ItaL
ian agreement.
*
Must Re-Hire Sit Strikers
'TPHE National Labor Relations
-*■ board ordered the Kuehne Manu
facturing company. Flora, ID., to re
instate with back pay 164 American
Federation of Labor sit-doWn strik
ers.
It was the NLRB’s third major
sit-down decision, but the first in
volving an A. F. of L. union.
The labor board refused to an
swer 74 questions put to it by the
Ford Motor company in United
States circuit court at Covington,
Ky. The board particularly resented
being asked whether Thomas Cor
coran, Benjamin V. Cohen, John L.
Lewis or Homer Martin were con
sulted in arriving at an order charg
ing the Ford oompany with violat
ing the Wagner labor act.
*
'‘Doom-Sealers,” Says Farley
POSTMASTER GENERAL FAR-
1 LEY attacked the critics of the
administration’s spending - lending
program in an address tc the Com
monwealth club of
Chicago.
“The doom-seal
ers,” he said, “are
again sending forth
their mournful
prophesies of evil
because of govern
ment acts per
formed or suggest
ed.
“Stocks are down
a bit. There is a re
currence of vast un
employment. Cer
tain taxes bear heavily on people
or corporations with plethoric
purses. So the same element that
has held every national emergency
as a precursor of doom is out again
in full cry.”
Asserting that he would not under
estimate “either the value of criti
cism of government acts or the
service of those who think they are
warning us of impending dangers,”
he told his audience “there should
be some intelligence, some reason
ableness and some moderation in
these controversies.”
“The republic,” he said, “is in no
danger. It never has been in dan
ger since the present administration
checked the downward spiral of the
big depression and started us again
on the upward path.”
*
Too Late for Wheat Quotas
S ECRETARY WALLACE said thav
under the new crop control law
it is too late to invoke marketing
quotas on this year’s indicated
bumper wheat crop. He explained
that the law authorized quotas this
year only in the event congress ap
propriated funds by May 15 for
“parity payments” provided in the
new legislation.
James A.
Farley
Asks 23 Millions for Navy
/'’’ONGRESS received from the
1 President a request that it ap
propriate $23,875,000 immediately to
begin strengthening the nation’s sea
and air defenses in accordai.-e with
the billion dollar naval expansion
act.
The President outlined the intend
ed uses of the fund as follows in a
letter to Speaker Bankhead:
For three new warships, ten aux
iliaries and a fleet of small vessels
of great speed and maneuverabili
ty, $16,500,000.
For nine patrol planes of the lat
est type, $3,375,000.
For a dirigible—the first since the
Macon and Akron crashed several
years ago—$500,000.
For improvements at navy yards,
$3,500,000.
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Predestination Is Out
/''GENERAL assembly of the Pres-
byterian church in the United
States, in session at Meriden, Miss.,
voted 151 to 130 to omit from the
confession of faith thege two impor
tant sections:
‘By the decree of God, for the
manifestation of his glory, some
men and angels are predestined
unto everlasting life and others fore
ordained to everlasting death.
“And their number is so certain
and definite that it cannot be either
increased or diminished.”
*
Crop Loan Losses
T OSSES incurred by the federal
' government in crop loan opera
tions by the Commodity Crop cor
poration since its creation in 1937
have totaled $83,987,495.
This was made known in a com
munication President Roosevelt sent
to the capitol, asking that $94,285,-
404 be appropriated to restore the
$100,000,000 capital of the corpora
tion.
A budget bureau statement ac
companying the President’s com
munication showed that the bulk of
the losses grew out of the shrinkage
in the market value of cotton, corn,
tobacco, turpentine and other com
modities put up as collateral for
price bolstering loans.
The principal loss of $51,459,150
was incurred in loans on the 1934
cotton crop.
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Phil La Follette Snubbed
T HE Wisconsin Farmer-Labor-
Progressive federation snubbed
Gov. Philip LaFollette, president of
the new National Progressive party,
and unanimously indorsed Daniel
W. Hoan, Milwaukee’s Socialist
mayor, as progressive candidate for
United States senator.
The convention applauded when
the secretary ruled out Governor
LaFollette’s name as the indorsee
for re-election.
*
Earle Beats C.I.O. Man
T HE desperate primary battle
among the Pennsylvania Demo
crats resulted in complete victory
for Gov. George H. Earle and his
state machine and
equally complete
defeat for the Duf-
fey - Lewis - C. I. O.
faction, whose can
didates all the way
down from senator
and governor to mi
nor county offices,
^ were routed. Earle
won the senatorship
nomination over
s'*,!. Ma yor . Wilson of
Gov. Earle Philadelphia,
Charles Alvin Jones, Pittsburgh law
yer, captured the gubernatorial
nomination, beating Thomas Ken
nedy, secretary-treasurer of the
United Mine Workers' of America,
who was on the Duffey-Lewis ticket.
Jim Farley, national committee
chairman, had projected himself in
to the hot fight by advising the com
promise choice of Eatle and Ken
nedy, but the governor indignantly
told him it was non6 of his busi
ness, and the voters gave him a
swat on the head by rejecting his
advice. ,
Republicans were elated because
the returns showed a ground swell
back toward G. O. F. conservatism.
The Republican total vote exceeded
the Democratic vote, and this fact,
together with the graft and bribery
charges that enlivened the cam
paign of the Demdbrats, led the Re
publican leaders fo hope the Key
stone state would return to the Re
publican fold in Nbvember.
Judge Arthur James won a
smashing victory., over Gifford Pin-
chot, twice goverdor, for the Repub
lican gubernatorial nomination, and
this was another swat at John L.
Lewis, for he was reported ready to
back Pinchot if-Kennedy lost. Sen.
James J. Davis was renominated
by a heavy majority.
Both Senator Guffey and Lewis
appear to have lost their claims to
political leadership. Lewis had
boasted that he controlled 800,000
C. I. O. vottfs in Pennsylvania, but
the best he] could do was 520,000.
Earle, though he came out on top,
was considered to have lost pres
tige greatly by the accusations of
mis-rule made against his adminis
tration. His presidential aspirations
were believed wrecked.
The C. J. O. has lost other politi
cal figh|s, but none so important
as this.,- President William Green
of the American Federation of La
bor called the vote a complete “re
pudiation of the C. I. O. leadership.”
He added:
“It now has become abundantly
clear that no candidate who bears
the C. I. O. brand can be elected to
high Office in this country. The pri
maries proved the C. I. O. is a politi
cal liability, not a political power.”
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WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
N EW YORK.—Mrs. Joseph P.
Kennedy has been an effective
social and political ally of both her
father, former mayor of Boston, and
her husband, am-
InrM. Kennedy bassador to the
Aida Father Court of St.
andHuahand James. But the
news that, in ac-
cordance with her husband’s deci
sion, she presented only seven
American women at court is one of
her rare appearances in the head
lines.
The 11 engaging Kennedys have
been viewed more or less en bloc in
the news and Mrs. Kennedy has
never been in a very sharp lens
focus.
She was ?ne of the prettiest
of Boston debutantes, 30 years
ago, a rollicking girl with black
hair and eyes of Irish bine.
Back home from her convent
training, she tanght her father
“Sweet Adeline.”
He was John F. (Honey Fitz) Fitz
gerald, and in his campaigns he
sang his way to memorable political
fame—riding like a surfboard the
long, lingering “swipes” of the song
taught him by his daughter—“the
flower of his heart.”
Joseph P. Kennedy^ her childhood
playmate, was twenty-five years old
when they were
Fortune and married in 1914.
Family Grew He borrowed $2,-
Up Together 000 to \ a
payment on a $6,-
500 house. Their fortunes grew as
their family, with Mr. Kennedy
president of a bank, in a year or two
after their marriage.
Mrs. Kennedy once told a Boston
drygoods clerk that she bought 200
suits and dresses a year. It takes
a heap of shopping to make a home,
like the Kennedys’, and she became
known among her friends as a para
gon of household efficiency com
parable to the one in Solomon’s off
hand apostrophe to such skills and
virtues.
Now she is mistress of the
“castle” which was once J.
Pierpont Morgan’s home; also
of a beautiful mansion in Bronx-
ville, N. 1., a huge summer es
tate at Hyannisport, Cape Cod,
and a villa at Palm Beach, built
by one of the Wanamakers.
She is slender and girlish, comely
and vivacious, weighs 115 pounds
and takes size 14
Haa Diamond m dresses. Vion-
a Potentate net makes her
Might Envy « own ® a ? d sh f u is
envied by other
women for her magnificent jewels—
notable among them being a ruby
and diamond bracelet which, it is
said, is matched only by the one
the Aga Khan gave his princess.
But she never lets the children
run to unseemly display, hold
ing them to restraint in regime
and dress. Even without all
these adventitious fixings, say
her friends, she would be an ad
mirable ambassador’s wife, with
her own quite adequate equip
ment of tact, charm and intelli
gence.
• • •
M AN and boy, this journeyman
has helped process a lot of
explorers’ and adventurers’ copy
through the news mill. If it was
ghost-written, it had only slick and
synthetic excitement, like Ersatz
pastry, and if it wasn’t it was usu
ally dull. Happily in contrast are
the doubtlessly authentic and per
sonally written yarns of W. H. Til-
man, leader of the British Mount
Everest expedition, now getting un
der way.
These stories from the Tibetan
base camp have a professional ease
and fluency, along
Yarna From w ith a ring of in-
Mf. Evereat tegrity which
Ring True * ives assurance
g that Mr. Tilman is
really writing them. There is no
ghost on the job here.
Mr. Tilman is thirty-nine years
old, a keen-faced, hard-muscled
Britisher of medium stature, who
has been exploring ever since he
left college.
He has climbed mountains in the
Alps and in Africa, including Mounts
Kenya, Kilimanjaro and Ruvenzori.
This is his fifth expedition to the
Himalayas. The entrants in this
high hurdle event are not young
sters. N. E. Odell is forty-seven,
F. S. Smythre is thirty-seven and
the others are all over thirty.
© Consolidated News Features.
WNU Service.
Bull Terrier, White Dog
When bull baiting was abolished
by law in England, sporting men
developed the bull terrier for dog
fighting and badger baiting. About
1875, dalmatian and pointer blood
were introduced in the strain, mak
ing them look less like bulldogs.
The bull terrier is always white, has
a long tapering head, wide, deep
chest, stiff, glossy hair and taper
ing tail. He is gentle and good na-
tured, but fears nothing and is a
good watch dog.
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ADVENTURERS’ CLUB
HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES
OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI
“Death by Proxy”
By FLOYD GIBBONS >
Famous Headline Hunter
H ello everybody:
There’s only one thing I know that’s less profitable than
being a burglar, and that’s just posing as one. And Distin
guished Adventurer Willard G. Stanton of Bloomfield, N. J.,
ought to agree with me there. Once upon a time, when Bill was
a youngster of sixteen, he tried that little stunt. Not purposely,
of course. Bill’s intentions were perfectly O. K. But it doesn’t
make any difference what your intentions are. If you look like a
burglar, or if you act like a burglar, first thing you know some
body is going to think you ARE a burglar and treat you ac
cordingly.
Back in 1907, when this adventure happened to Bill, he lived in an old-
fashioned apartment house in Brooklyn. At least it would look old-
fashioned today. At that time it was probably the last word in apart
ment houses. It had a stairway running up the center of the building,
and there were two apartments to the floor. The doors of the living rooms
opened on the stair landing, and the outer doors were fitted with ground
glass panels. The glass was opaque. You couldn’t exactly see through
it. But when you were on the inside looking out you could tell when some
one was at the door, because you could see a shadow of a human figure
against the glass.
Remember those panels. They’ve got a lot to do with the story.
__ Burglars Alarmed the Old Ladies.
Bill’s family had an apartment on the fourth and top floor of that
building. Across the hall lived two old ladies—retired school teachers—
one of whom was slightly deaf. Remember that deaf old lady, too.
Treatment
for Acne
By
DR. JAMES W. BARTON
e B«u Syndicate.—WNU Service.
9
V.
Bullets Whizzed Over Bill’s Head.
Between her and the glass panels. Old Lady Adventure managed to cook
up quite a thrill for Bill Stanton.
About three o’clock one November morning, Bill was awakened out
of a sound sleep by a loud, insistent pounding. As he came out of a
half-doze, he realized that the pounding came from the wall, on the other
side of which the two old ladies slept. Something was wrong in their
apartment! Bill jumped out of bed and went into his own living room.
Then he saw what the trouble was.
On the ground glass panels of the door leading to the hall he could
see two shadowy figures. They were over by the door of the old ladies’
apartment and they seemed to be trying to jimmy the lock. So that was
it! Burglars, trying to get in next door! The old ladies had heard
them and pounded on the wall to attract Bill’s attention.
Bill called out, “Who’s there?” and began rattling the door
knob. The two figures moved noiselessly to the stairs and be
gan to descend. Bill was sixteen, and impetuous. He ran out of
his apartment and started to follow the two men down the stairs.
“Right there,” he says, "is where my adventuring career
started.”
Bill Was in a Tight Place.
Bill followed the crooks down two flights of stairs, but they were too
fast for him. He was in pajamas, and he Wouldn’t very well dash out into
the street after them anyway. Not on a cold night in November. He
turned around and went slowly back up the stairs.
Bill got to the top and put his hand on the doorknob. The door was
locked. In his haste to follow the two men he had slammed it behind
him. In his pajamas and without a key in his pocket, it looked as if
he was going to have some trouble getting back in. He stood for a
moment considering his plight, and then, suddenly he heard a voice
coming from the next apartment.
It was one of the old ladies—the deaf one—and her tone was omi
nous. “If you don’t go away,” she yelled, “I’ll shoot.”
All at once Bill realized what a tight situation he was in. The old lady
could see his shadow through the glass door and thought he was one of the
departed burglars. He knew she kept a gun in her apartment and didn’t
have any doubt that she would do just what she threatened to do.
Shot At by a Deaf Woman.
“I thought I had a good pair of lungs,” says Bill, “and I
screamed back: ‘Don’t shoot. It’s me.’ But I didn’t count on
that old lady being deaf. Before I had a chance to get in an
other word I heard a loud report and a bullet came crashing
through the door. It was followed by two more. Then I dropped
flat on the floor, and while I lay there, three more shots imbed
ded themselves in the wall over my head.”
The shots stopped then, but Bill lay right where he was, afraid to
stir lest the slightest motion bring more of that hot lead his way. Then,
inside his own apartment, he heard his mother open a window and
start screaming for the police. Still Bill stayed where he was. Courage
is one thing, but when a panic-stricken old lady starts blazing away right
and left with a revolver, there isn’t any sense in giving her a mark to
shoot at.
Bill lay right where he was until the police came. Then he got up
again. He looked himself over and was relieved to find that he hadn’t
been hit by any of those wild bullets, but he found an ominous little
hole in the sleeve of his pajamas that showed just how close he had
come to having a funeral instead of just an adventure. “And now
adays,” says Bill, “when there is any burglar hunting to be done, I do
it by telephone.”
Copyright.—WNU Servlet.
ALTHOUGH a definite organ-
l\ ism has been found in
smears taken from the pus in
pimples (acne), this ailment is
not usually transferred from
one patient to another.
As acne comes on at puberty, thir
teen to sixteen years of age, most
physicians now
agree that the symp
toms are due to
some gland change
which affects the oil
in the little oil
glands of the skin; it
becomes thick and
hard and so cannot
escape readily to
the surface of the
skin through the lit
tle hole. As the oil
Dr. Barton gradually accumu-
lates in the gland
and cannot escape, the gland en
larges, the oil, now a hard mass,
becomes infected. Some pimples
contain just the hard oil while oth
ers contain pus.
Pimples disfigure the skin and
cause so much embarrassment that
the individual is apt to develop an
inferiority complex which interferes
with business and social progress..
The Moden^ Treatment.
Formerly treatment was by
salves and lotions, cutting down on
certain foods, and keeping the in
testines active. Today the internal
treatment is by some gland extract
—usually pituitary extract—and the
external treatment is by X-ray. In
fact, X-ray treatment is considered
the best single treatment.
What is known as the viosterol
treatment discovered by two mem
bers of the staff of the University
of Chicago—as used on themselves
and later on a number of students—
has given excellent results in many
cases. Ten drops of viosterol were
taken daily in a half glassful of
water, gradually increasing the dose
until at the end of two weeks 20
drops were being taken daily. Twen
ty drops were taken daily for two
more weeks. The treatment was re
peated after an interval of 10 days.
Then followed the gland treat
ment—anterior pituitary—injected
twice weekly for two months.
• • •
As to Left-Handedness
I can remember sitting in class in
my early school days and seeing
a teacher come unexpectedly upon
a youngster writing with his left
hand. The youngster received a
sharp blow with a ruler, pointer,
or other object. In addition the
teacher took pains to tell the young
ster and the class in general that
left-handedness was a physical de
fect just as was spinal curvature,
round shoulders, knock knees and
flat feet. In fact there might be
something wrong with the brain it
self.
From time to time during the past
15 or 20 years, research work
ers have shown that left-handed
youngsters are at least as bright as
other children, and have no more
defects—epilepsy, bed-wetting—than
normal children.
Some months ago Dr. Joseph J.
Michaels (Boston Psychopathic hos
pital) and Dr. Sylvia E. Goodman
(State Psychopathic hospital, Ann
Arbor, Mich.) in the Archives of
Neurology and Psychiatry, recorded
a study of 468 children of whom
about 11 per cent were left handed.
Their figures show that among
these left-handed children there
were no more cases of bed-wetting,
temper tantrums, sleep disturb
ances, dreaming and failures in
school than among those who were
right handed. There was, however,
a slight association of stammering,
thumb-sucking and nail biting ’/nth
the ones who were left handed.
The results of these investigations
would show that while left-handed
children are as bright as those who
write with the right hand, they are,
to a slight degree, more nervous
because stammering, thumb-sucking
and nail biting are definitely “nerv
ous” symptoms.
Use of the Oregon Boot
Once Oregon was famous for a
contrivance that was held in pardon
able distaste by prisoners who hap
pened to find themselves confined
within the cold gray walls of the
state penitentiary. The Oregon boot,
they called it, and it was used as
an efficient but not altogether hu
mane method of keeping prisoners
from dashing off on their own.
Home of Copernicus
Torun in Poland is the birthplace
of Copernicus, the great astron
omer. The charming old city has
a statue to his memory and visitors
may enter the home he had 400
years ago.
Our Faith in Human Nature
“Our faith in human nature grows
so scant,” said Hi Ho, the sage of
Chinatown, “that we soon arrive at
the belief that everybody who is or
dinarily polite is trying to deceive
us.”
Compelled to Kill Squirrels
The large number of squirrels
were such a menace in the early
days that the Ohio legislature passed
a law compeUing each person to kill
a certain number of them each
year. The number was to be de
termined by each township board of
trustees, and those who failed to
fill their quota were subject to
a fine.
Sausage Tree Native of Africa
The sausage tree (Kigelia pinna-
ta) is a native of Africa. It has
rough pinnate leaves and peculiar
flowers which hang suspended by
long peduncles. Froia each flower
a large fruit develops which resem
bles a sausage.
Reference to Shaving in Bible
There are many references to
shaving in the Bible. In Genesis,
41:14, we find that Joseph shaved
himself before going into the pres
ence of Pharaoh.
Largest City in Area
Zamboanga, a small town at the
southern extremity of the Philip
pines archipelago, is now the larg
est city in the world in area. It
achieved the distinction as the re
sult of a charter giving it a total
area of 1,059 square miles. Tokyo
previously held the world record
with an area of 833 square miles,
followed by London (699 square
miles, Los Angeles (442.5), Ber
lin (348), and New York (310). In
point of population, however, Zam
boanga is not near the largest city
in the Philippines. It boasts only
101,048 inhabitants.
Scallop in Coat-of-Arms
Scallop shells are usually radial
ly ribbed, and the edges are, there
fore, often undulating. The scallop
appears in the coat-of-arms of
many old families whose men went
on the Crusades to the Holy Land.
The Crusaders used the shells of
the Mediterranes n scallop for
drinking cups, pla'-es, etc., often ty
ing them on their coats. The scal
lop became the emblem of those
going on the crusades.